Annie’s Comments (group member since Jan 16, 2018)

Annie’s comments from the Raspberry Cordial Reading Club group.

Finished: Hannah Coulter (Wendell Berry), Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Mark Twain)

In progress: The Distracted Mind (Adam Gazzaley, Larry Rosen)

With my study group: Essays on Woman (Edith Stein - reread for me)

I'm Annie :) Newlywed living in Texas, wife to a medical student who will be participating in the residency match in March, so who knows where we'll be living come summer!

After finishing graduate school in August 16, I felt motivated to read more for pleasure. I've always been a bookworm, but 7 straight years of higher education had sapped all of my pleasure-reading time and energy.

Last year I made a reading list for myself, which I stuck to religiously for a few months, but then I started traveling a lot for work, and then I got married, so the second half of the year was a bit more sporadic - but I got close to my goal! This year, I made my reading list a bit more flexible based on lessons I learned last year, so we'll see how it goes :)

I've been focusing on beefing up my "classics" repertoire - last year my big read was Middlemarch. This year, I'm adding some more nonfiction into the mix as well as some lives of the saints - currently Joan of Arc by Mark Twain!

Also, my husband and I recently got into Agatha Christie audiobooks, which has been really fun on long drives!